"The Maltese-born Joe Sacco is the rare cartoonist with a journalism degree (and, maybe just as rare, a cartoonist with masterful journalistic chops). Sacco's latest book, " The Once and Future Riot," coming out this month from Metropolitan Books, focusses on the aftermath of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. The book uses the cartoonist's tools-visual details, captions, balloons, maps, sequential narratives-to tell the story of Sacco's own reporting: his conversations with victims, village leaders, witnesses, and officials."
"Sacco's style, forged years ago in the tradition of independent comics, favors an autobiographical mode, and he continued to operate in that mode even as his work began to take a journalistic turn. "I began to appreciate what my drawn character signalled," he told us, that journalism "is shaped by the journalist's cultural biases and subjectivities, crafted by a fallible person trying-with different degrees of success-to understand what is going on.""
Autobiographical graphic reportage uses cartoonist tools — visual details, captions, balloons, maps, sequential narratives — to present reporting on the aftermath of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in Uttar Pradesh. The work foregrounds the reporter's journey, showing conversations with victims, village leaders, witnesses, and officials. It examines tensions among memory, rationalization, and conflicting accounts, and explores how violence is used to disrupt democratic processes. Intimate human stories reveal how ordinary lives are upended by shocking events and how assumptions of everyday order and civilization can no longer be taken for granted.
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